February 20, 2026
By Bill Connelly, ESPN: In the 2000 college football season, 10 FBS quarterbacks threw for more than 3,000 yards. In 2025, 37 did so, including five freshmen. Cal‘s Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele threw for 3,454 yards last fall, more than Mike Leach protege Kliff Kingsbury, Maxwell Award winner Drew Brees or national champion and second-place Heisman finisher Josh Heupel did 25 years earlier.
We play more football games now, so that certainly impacts the numbers, but things have changed from an efficiency standpoint, too: Based on the old college passer rating formula, only seven quarterbacks hit a 150.0 passer rating or higher in 2000; in 2025, 26 cleared that bar. Central Michigan‘s Joe Labas managed a 160.4 passer rating — that would have ranked fourth nationally in 2000, only slightly behind that of Florida‘s Rex Grossman. All told, 2025 wasn’t even an amazing year for quarterback play, and the numbers are still completely different than they used to be.
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